Business-desk



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A. OUTL Business D No. 242,436; Patented'lune 7,188].

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ABNER CUTLER, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

BUSINESS-DESK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.'242,436, dated June '7, 1881.

Application filed September 24, 1880.

, .4 To all whom it may concern: v

Be it known that I, ABNER (3U EE, a citizen of the United States, residing-at Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Business-Desks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates more desks that have a flexible sliding cover.

The object of the improvement is to prevent looseness and rattling of the sliding cover by the peculiar construction of the ends of the slats or moldings of said cover, as hereinafter described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective of the upper part of a business-desk, showing the suspended pigeon-hole case, the sliding cover run back, and the lower drawers; Fig. 2, a perspective of one end or side of the flexible sliding cover; Fig. 3, a detail of the flexible sliding cover, taken longitudinally through one of the slats.

Arepresents the flatdesk part, with the usual series of drawers 0 beneath at each side.

B represents the pigeon-hole casefwhich, instead of being set on or attached to the desk A, is suspended by the ends to the side pieces, a a, thus giving a space, I), beneath, and leaving the entire surface of the desk free, so as to be available for books, papers, &e. WVhen this case is set on the desk, as is usual, only a center space is left; but by my arrangement the whole of the top is exposed, giving nearly double the room.

The flexible sliding cover D is constructed with upper and lower moldings or slats, with interposed flexible material, as described in the patent of Fred k. H. Cutler, October 5,

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1875, No. 168,459. In that the ends of both upper and lower moldings set and run in the curved grooves 0 c of the side pieces, aa; but this causes a rattling and looseness that I now overcome as follows: I make the grooves c 0 very much narrower, and only the ends of the under slats, dtltLot' the cover enter and slide therein; 'these fill the grooves, and, in addition, the endsd ot each slatd are rounded on top, so as to conform in shape to the short curves of the groove when the cover is slid back and forth. The upper slats or moldings, e, of the cover do not project into the grooves, but are out off square, so as to form a shoulder outside of the groove. These narrow grooves c c, and the thin and rounded ends of the slats (1 cl, having the upper slats out of the grooves, overcome the present difficulty experienced with sliding covers. Mine slide more smoothly and cannot rattle nor become loose. The slats d entirely fill the groove, as before stated.

I claim- The flexible sliding cover D, having ends d d projecting from the main part, in combination with the sides a a, having grooves c, the upper surface, (1, of each of the proj ectiu g ends rounded, so as to conform to the short curves of the grooves c c, the ends of the upperni'olding or slats, e e, forming a shoulder outside the grooves c c, all as and for the purpose specified.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ABNER CUTLER.

Witnesses:

J. R. DRAKE,

H. A. BENTLIF. 

